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Dickinson's "Dare you see a soul at the white heat." (Emily Dickinson)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19960101
Author:Birden, Lorene M.

Emily Dickinson's poem "Dare you see a soul at the white heat" presents the intensity involved in the act of creation. It also shows the relationship between the poet, the creative process, the poem and the reader. For the poet, it is the creative force or the act of writing which is at the core of the process. This is the white heat state, the intense moment of inspiration during which the poem is forged. The poem also implies that the result of such process is nothing unless there is a reader, the witness to such transcendent burning.

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